Barbing Castle

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Barbing Castle (today Town Hall)
Outbuilding of Barbing Castle (today the town hall restaurant)

The Barbing Castle is a Grade II listed building in Church Street one of the municipality Barbing in the Bavarian district of Regensburg , which is used as the town hall of the church today.

history

The noblemen of Barbing were first mentioned around the middle of the 12th century. The existence of a low castle is documented for 1344 . After 1487 the castle became the property of the Regensburg Monastery. In the Thirty Years' War destroyed, took place in 1648 a reconstruction. Around 1770, the previous system was the castle rebuilt. King Ludwig I left the castle to the Regensburg Bishop Johann Michael Sailer , who used it as a summer residence from 1826 to 1832. The castle later belonged to the Princes of Thurn and Taxis . Today it is used as the town hall of the Barbing community.

building

The building is a three-storey hipped roof with rusticated arched portal from the second half of the 18th century and a facade with corner pilasters . At the staircase there is an alliance coat of arms of Pfalz-Neuburg and the Hochstift Regensburg. The baroque garden enclosure consists of pillars with profiled cover plates and a rusticated gate with a triangular gable . The also baroque garden pavilion in the former palace park is a tent roof construction with corner rustics. The former stable is a single-storey, three-aisled hipped roof building with a dormer window from 1850 and is now used as a library.

literature

Web links

  • Entry on Barbing in the private database "Alle Burgen".

Coordinates: 49 ° 0 ′ 13.4 ″  N , 12 ° 11 ′ 56.7 ″  E